Political Sayings

I think that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

I have no taste for politics.

The sovereign is absolute. This is the only form of government that can sustain a vast empire.

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

I am not a consensus politician. I am a conviction politician.

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

I'm not a natural politician.

When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.

When I am in the White House, I am the President; when I am in the country, I am a farmer.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

I don't give a damn about the Republicans or the Democrats. I'm interested in the United States of America.

I have only one ambition, and that is to be President of the United States.

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

The greatest danger to democracy is not fascism, but socialism.

The United Nations is nothing more than a Masonic-Communist plot.

We are the true revolutionaries.

I have been a revolutionary all my life. I will die a revolutionary.

Islam is politics or it is nothing.